NEW YORK -- Apparently even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is fed up with the archaic process of sending an official under the hood to make key replay decision while looking at a television that would be considered small for the ‘80s, nevertheless the 21st century.

Goodell was asked Friday at the State of the League press conference prior to Super Bowl XLVII if changes could be made to the current replay system. Thankfully, the answer was: Yes!

“We think there is plenty of room for us to change the game of football, the officiating in particular,” Goodell said. “What we all want is consistency, fairness in our officiating. And we believe we may be able to achieve more consistency … when [instant replay] is more of a centralized version and decision-making process.”

The current system the NFL is employing during games will be thoroughly reviewed over the next two months, with potential improvements being brought to the table at March’s Owners’ Meetings.

“That is something the competition committee is going to consider over the next two months and come back to a recommendation for the membership,” Goodell said. “I do believe a possibility of that submersion may occur where our office can at least be involved in that [replay] decision. May not make the decision but at least can provide some input that would at least be helpful to the officials on the field to make sure they are seeing every angle and have the proper opportunity to make the best decision.”

It’s promising to hear the commissioner open to such changes. Officials misinterpreting or not knowing rules has long been a problem. Providing them assistant would seem an obvious boost.

One possibility for the NFL’s replay system is to make it more like the NHL, which has a centralized process. The NHL does all of its reviews out of the league office in Toronto.

The NFL recently made a trip to Toronto for fact-finding and to talk about the NHL’s system. Goodell can see some of their system integrated into the NFL’s revised version. But it won’t be a carbon copy.

“We’ve always made changes in our replay system and we’re not afraid to learn from others maybe doing it differently,” Goodell said. “Our system is unique. It will be different than the NHL in any case.

“We have replay that probably deals with a lot more plays than the NHL. So we have to modify it for the NFL. It has to work for us.”